Archives for July 2018

Jesminder “Jess” Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) is the 18-year-old daughter of Punjabi Sikhs from Hounslow, west London. Juliette “Jules” Paxton (Keira Knightley) is the daughter of an English couple. Jess is infatuated with football, but because she is female (and Indian), her parents do not allow her to play. However, she sometimes plays in the park […]

Released in late 1999, The Bone Collector turns the pulpy indulgence of Jeffery Deaver’s novel into a slick potboiler that is grisly interesting. Director Phillip Noyce expertly builds palpable tension around a series of gruesome murders that lead us into the darkest nooks of New York City. Now a bedridden quadriplegic prone to life-threatening seizures […]

Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses might be described as a neo-Deleuzian examination of film and visual media. It’s a good book, using metaphors to look at film, such as “film as a window” or “cinema as brain” and this seems a Deleuzian way of going about it. The book is mostly a phenomenological […]